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Date of source: Monday, February 20, 2017
Tomorrow (Tuesday) marks the first day of the Dutch Coptic Organization’s Annual Conference, in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. The conference is titled “Modern Egypt Under the Shadow of the Contempt of Religions Law.” The conference will be attended by a selection of thinkers and...
Date of source: Monday, July 16, 2012
The United States of America's Embassy in Cairo was able to convince some Coptic figures and clerics to meet U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Numerous dignitaries boycotted the meeting Clinton had during her visit to Egypt, in protest against U.S. support for the Muslim Brotherhood.
While...
Date of source: Sunday, November 6, 2011
Military ruler approved the appeal of victims' families of Naj' Hammādī massacre, which resulted in the death of seven Copts and a police officer, and will retry both al-Qirshī Abū al-Hajāj, second suspect, and Nidāwī Sayīd Muhammad, third suspect. Both have been acquitted from the case where al-...
Date of source: Sunday, November 6, 2011
The Military prosecution decided to renew the custody of 31 suspects in Maspero incidents (case number:855, East Cairo Military Criminal Court, known as Maspero incidents).
In the same case, the court rejected the appeal on remanding the blogger 'Alā' 'Abd al-Fatāh, who has been in custody for 15...
Date of source: Sunday, October 30, 2011
A decree criminalizing discrimination has been issued but is it really going to be applied to hardliners spreading fanaticism, extremism and hatred through the media or will it be applied only to the weak (Copts)? wonders Nādir Shukrī in an opinion article in Watanī.
Date of source: Monday, October 31, 2011
Head of the Coptic Christian Church Pope Shenouda III today decided to cancel the celebration of his 40th year as Pope to stand in solidarity with martyrs’ families.
The Pope decided to cancel the celebration both because of the poor situation in Egypt and because the Copts recently lost 23 of...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
Hundreds of Muslims in al-Marīnāb village of Idfū town, Aswan governorate, set Saint George's Church on fire, and then used sharp equipments to demolish the church's domes and ceilings, in addition to setting light to four Coptic houses.
Security forces came late and failed to prevent the...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2011
In Banī Mazār village, al-Minya governorate, al-Shaykh Fadl Secondary School refused to let a Coptic girl, first secondary grade, in for the eighth day running for refusing to wear a hijāb.
When the girl's father went to school to object the measure, the school administration filed a libel report...
Date of source: Monday, September 26, 2011
The Egyptian Cabinet is scheduled to send a fact-finding team from the National Justice Commitee to investigate the Saint George's Church Crisis in al-Marīnāb village of Idfū city in Aswan governorate.
The crisis erupted three weeks ago when Muslims objected to building domes on the church and...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Cairo to meet with Pope Shenouda III, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, and Muhammad Badī', Murshid (Guide) of the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as other prominent members of the group.
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.